Montana born, Tennessee raised, Meghan currently lives in New Rochelle, NY where she is the Gym Director of The Rock Club, the newest and largest indoor rock climbing gym in the North East.

While rock climbing is her passion and something she’s dedicated herself to, Meghan has been involved in competitive sports since grade school where she was a rising soccer star. She has won many athletic and academic awards and played Division I soccer at Fordham University in the Bronx where she majored in Chemistry and graduated with honors.

Meghan was first introduced to rock climbing at age 14 and hasn’t looked back. In the summer of 2006 she traveled around the U.S. to sport climb and boulder in over 20 states. The trip was sponsored by companies including Urban Climber Magazine, Madrock, Trango, and prAna. An article she wrote about the trip was featured in the Nov/Dec 2006 edition of Urban Climber Magazine and a website dedicated to the trip is online at www.SendTheStates.com.

As the Gym Director of The Rock Club, Meghan brings the experience of over 10 years of working in the climbing industry at gyms in New York, NY, Nashville, TN, and Stamford, CT.  As the Director of Programming at TRC, Meghan has developed The Rock Club’s hugely successful after school programming that is helping to bring the next generation of climbers into the sport.  Additionally, she has co-created a women’s group at TRC and is developing special programming to help more women break into climbing in a fun, supportive environment. 

Meghan is also a head coach of Team Rock, TRC’s competitive climbing team, and takes great pride in the work she does with kids of all levels and abilities. Team Rock had huge success in its first year with all of its members being invited to the Regional Championships and three climbers representing at the National Championships.  Of all her endeavors, this may be her favorite as she gets to combine her passion for climbing, her talent of working with kids and her desire to teach.

As well as climbing, Meghan also loves playing Frisbee and enjoys most activities that involve being outdoors. She is hoping to run in a marathon in the not too distant future!

Outside of climbing Meghan has always been involved in community work including participating in five international service trips to Belize and India- two of which she organized and led through Global Outreach, a community outreach program at Fordham University. She is proud to be able to bring that aspect of her life to her job by working with kids with disabilities and organizing to bring disadvantaged youth to the gym to experience the thrill of climbing.  She's continually amazed at how empowering climbing can be and how it can be such a great tool to build self-esteem, trust, and responsibility.  Going forward, Meghan hopes to continually expand these programs.

Meghan is also the co-founder of alt9 Productions – a company that produced videos for two of the premier bouldering competitions in the nation put on by NE2C: the Mammut-EMS Bouldering Championships in 2006 and 2007 and the ASCI Showdown in 2007 (that hosted 30 of the best climbers in North America!). You can see the videos here.

Meghan’s aim for the future is to do her part to bring climbing to an even larger audience and to develop programs that help people of all ages and abilities reach their goals through their participation in the sport. While she still enjoys and excels at climbing competitively herself, her energy is currently geared toward the success of Team Rock. Go TEAM!